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What is PuMP - A Demonstration of the KPI Problems PuMP Fixes
The PuMP Performance Measure Blueprint is powerful and practical approach to develop and use performance measures (KPIs) that are truly meaningful for your organization and strategy. PuMP makes a fundamental difference in our understanding of, and ability to create and use, results focused KPIs. PuMP takes us beyond activity focused measures. Although PuMP has been out in the world for about 25 years and used is over 40 countries, we’ve never presented a real tour of what i


One Chart to Really Understand Performance - XmR Chart Design 3.0
Just because a chart can display data does not mean it illustrates real performance or enables actionable decisions from your KPIs. If you’re familiar with PuMP or have attended a PuMP workshop, you’ll remember that we use one specific type of chart to illustrate performance and tell the complete story of your performance measures and KPIs. The chart type isn’t new. It is an XmR chart and has stood the test of time monitoring performance in organizations around the world aro


Bridging the Strategy-Execution Gap
About this Webcast It is all too common that results achieved from strategy execution efforts are less than desired, misalignments become evident, "strategic" initiatives multiply, resources get stretched, the strategy loses traction, frustration mounts, and confidence is diminished. When there is a disconnect between what the organization is actually doing and what its strategic direction has planned to do, there is a strategy-execution gap. Organizations with a strategy-exe


Why Important Things are Hard to Measure
Why is it that the important things in our organization are also the hardest to meaningfully measure?


How Measurement Motivates
About this Webcast When people feel their performance and eligibility for rewards are judged by measures, it can easily lead to gaming and dysfunctional behavior just to hit KPI targets. There’s a better way to use measurement in organizations so it generates pride, initiative, ownership, and learning – the ingredients on which performance truly thrives. In this video with Stacey Barr and me, you will discover a fresh way of thinking about the relationship between measures
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